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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1901)
K Tile Valentine Democrat I M RICE Publisher YALENTINE NEBRASKA f BRIEF TELEGRAMS I The Thirty ninth infantry was mus tered out of service at San Francisco The Prussian government has bought the coal mines in the Ruhr district known as the Minister enbach and the Altrop for 25000- 000 marks The gross earnings of the Chicago Great Western railway for the fourth week of April show an increase of 4142042 over the corresponding week of last year The Hawaiian house of representa tives has passed the income tax bill which asesses 2 per cent on all over 1000 of the income of every person or corporation Rev A R Bartholomew of Rich land S D fired into a charivari party Arthur Shuflelt was hit in the jaw by a bullet but will recover Parties are all prominent The report of the boiler makers and ship builders society at London shows a decrease of 100000 tons in the ves sels launched during the past year as compared with 1899 The county board of control at St Paul has decided to seek requisition papers in order to secure the return to that state of thirty husbands who have deserted their wives Arbitration of all disputes and oppo sition to sympathetic strikes are the foundation principles of the new cen tral body to be known as the Chicago Building Trades League Thomas Cole was hanged at Clinton Ky for the murder of Emma Cara Rice his sweetheart with whom he had quarreled On the scaffold Cole expressed sorrow for the crime David Henderson a distiller was 4 instantly killed at Henderson Ky by the explosion of a keg of yeast which was submerged in a tub of mash he was emptying with a syphon Admiral Remey on board his flag ship Brooklyn has arrived at Mel bourne He will represent the United States government at the opening of the first session of the Australian par liament The population of London Including the city of London and twenty eight metropolitan boroughs the whole forming what is termed the adminis trative county of London is now 4 536034 Secretary Gage has recommended to the war department the appointment of Jarred D Terrel of Michigan as auditor for Cuba at 5000 a year The salary is paid out of the Cuban rev enues Mr Terrel is chief law clerk in the office of the comptroller of the treasury Consul General Barlow at the City of Mexico has telegraphed the state department expressing the opinion that there is no reason for quaran tining against that city on account of typhus fever He reports that for the week ending May 1 there was fifty three deaths there from that disease and the same number for each of the two weeks preceding A general order has been Issued to railway mail clerks calling attention to a complaint of the director general of posts of the Philippines that mail for the province of Quebec abbreviat ed as P Q often Is missent to the Philippines whose abbreviation is P I and that mail for Manville R I is missent to Manila Instructions for greater vigilance are given The saloons in Kansas City were closed tight Sunday for the first time in six years A syndicate is making an effort to absorb the American Waltham Watch companys plant and also the factory of the Elgin company at Elgin 111 The Swedish riksdag committee which has been considering the min isterial army proposals has reported in favor of increasing the expenditures by 22500000 kroner making a total of 45000000 kroner The New York Mail and Express says today There is excellent au thority for the statement that Wil liam K Vanderbilt has carried the day in the contest for the control of the Union Pacific railroad and that he intends to put through his plan for annexing it to the Vanderbilt system Lulu Mabry 6 years old passed through Chicago on a 1700 mile trip from Bear Lake Minn to a ranch in Arizona to see her father The little traveler was alone and pinned to her dress was a card giving her name and destination Venezuela is placing important or ders for war material with German firms The Illinois senate passed the bill a appropriating 150000 for the partici pation of the state in the worlds fair at St Louis Justino Fernandez has been appoint ed minister of justice and education in the cabinet of President Diaz According to cables and forecasts by the steamship companies 40000 Italian Imigrants will have arrived in the United States by the end of May sccsc MBS 1 x lflT7TTF V u IS ILL Has to Be Hurried Through to San Fran cisco Ahead of Party IS SUFFERING WITH A FELON Tills and tho Long and Tedious Jour ney Has Proven Too Much Jtor Her Will Rest For a Time Before Pro etieding on Route Lald Out SAN FRANCISCO Cal May 13 The sudden illness of Mrs McKinley has caused an unexpected change in the itinerary of President McKinley He arrived in this city quietly sev eral hours ahead of the time sched uled The state of Mrs McKinleys health was auch that the president de cided to leave Del Monte and bring his wife to this city immediately to the home of Henry T Scott where she could have complete rest for a few days and where a specialist could be consulted if necessary A special of two cars and a loco motive was made up from the presi dents special and at 1230 the presi dent Mrs McKinley Miss Barber the presidents niece Secretary Cortelyou and wife Dr Rixey and Mr H T Scott and wife left Del Monte for San Francisco leaving the remainder of the presidential party at Del Monte Only a few hundred people greeted the president upon his arrival in this city His coming was not generally known and only those who chanced to see the bulletins posted by the newspapers announcing that the presi dent would reach the city at 4 p m awaited his train The president in order to avoid the crowd that was expected to assemble at the Southern Pacific depot at Third and Townsend streets left the train with his little party at Vauencia street a station in the southern part of the city When the train consisting of a bag gage car and the presidents special coach stopped at Valencia street Mrs McKinley was carried in a steamer chair by two colored porters from the private car to a closed carriage in waiting She was heavily veiled and the president and Dr Rixey followed closely She was gently placed in the carriage and the president and Dr Rixey took seats in the same vehicle The president looked pale and serious The rest of the party took other car riages Mr and Mrs Scott had ar rived at their residence ahead of the president and were waiting to receive their distinguished guests Mrs Mc Kinley was again lifted from the car riage and placed inan invalid chair and carried into the house Secretary Cortelyou when question ed concerning Mrs McKinleys con dition stated that there was nothing alarming in her present indisposition and that perfect quiet and rest for a few days would restore her to her usual health It was the impression however of those who saw Mrs Mc Kinley that she is very ill and that her present state may result in an entire change of the presidents pro gram Should his wifes health improve the president will carry out his in tention to attend the celebration at San Jose If however her condition is no better the president will not leave his wifes side but will allow the cabinet officers and others of his party to represent him at San Jose M0LINE COMPANY IS WILLING Opposer of Flowniakers Combine Gives a Chance to Buy MOLINE 111 May 13 The Moline Plow company owning the second largest plow factory in the world has given an option to New York capital ists which if closed within the limit of sixty days will bring this concern into the 50000000 plow combine and make sure of its success The com pany employs 1000 men and the op tion is for upward of 5000000 The company has opposed the trust but will sell rather than fight it C H Deere president of Deere Co slated for the presidency of the combine says that the stock panic has not affected the plan of the trust as feared and he now considers the or ganization of the new combine sure No other farm implements but plows and related lines will be made by the combine of which Moline will probably be the chief manufacturing point Dcwett Resumes Operations LONDON May 13 General Dewet according to a dispatch to the Daily Mail from Pretoria has resumed oper ations and is reported to have cross ed into the Transvaal with 2000 men Fran Warners Only Demand BERLIN May 13 Frau Causima Wagner has addressed a letter to all the members of the Reichstag ask ing an indefinite prolongation of the Bayreuth monopoly on Parsifal She is willing to renounce the pro longation of copyright on the other operas of Wagner if her request as to Parsifal is granted She asserts that a certain impressario offered her 1000000 marks for the Parsifal rights for a term of five years FAIR IRRITANT IS REMOVED Exposition aianagers Hope that Troubles Are Adjusted BUFFALO N Y May 13 The booth in the Manufactures and Lib eral Arts building at the exposition grounds which has caused so much friction between the labor unions and the exposition offi cials and which threatened to involve all the men employed on the grounds in a general strike was removed to day and it is now believed that all the carp nters will go to work tomor row morning The booth objected to Is the only one in any of the build ings manufactured in mills where non union men are employed and as this is the only cause of complaint that the union carpenters have the offi cials are confident that there will be no more trouble The attendance at the grounds to day was good notwithstanding that it rained for about two hours during the day when most of the sightseers visited the exposition Sacred concerts furnished entertain ment for the visitors INDIANS ARE DRIVEN OIL Whites of Skaguay Take This Precau tion Against Smallpox PORT TOWNSEND Wash May 13 The steamer Victorian arrived from Skakway this morning bringing 100 passengers The Victorian reports considerable excitement in the north caused by the smallpox epidemic and various settlements are taking every precaution to check and wipe out the disease At Skagway the Indians were driven out and a strong guard placed around the town to prevent their return One or two cases of the disease exists among employes of the Treadwell mine on Douglas island and according to reports it is thought the big mining plant will have to shut down Returning passengers report that the mines of the Klondike are having the greatest harvest in the history of the country owing to the large abun dance of surface water which is being utilized in sluicing dirt taken out dur ing the winter months and the yield of the yellow metal exceeds the best expectations of the mine owners GOES TO PROTECT THE POST Brigadier General Breckenridge to Be Sent to tho Philiplnes WASHINGTON May 13 Secretary Root has approved the plan by which Brigadier General Breckinridge in spector general of the United States army will proceed to the Philippines for an extended tour of inspection The start will be made about June 20 on the transport Ingalls leaving New York by the Suez route There are a large number of military posts scat tered through the Philippines ami it is understood to be the idea to get a thorough knowledge of their condition and needs not only for the present but with reference to the transition stage of military to civil rule which is now being rapidly brought about John McKinley in the Poor House ST JOSEPH Mo May 13 John McKinley the first cousin of President McKinley was consigned to the poor house of Marshall county Kansas He has lived five years with a daughter at Blue Rapids Three weeks ago his daughter died leaving three small children and the old father to the care of her husband The burden was too much and the old man was sent to the poor farm He is 93 years old totally deaf and almost blind His hair is now white and his step is un certain The matter will probably be made known to the president who has been kept in ignorance of the old mans plight Had the Boers Only Known LONDON May 13 At a banquet of the Cornish association held in Lon don last night General Pole Carew said At the beginning of the war had the Boers fully realized their strength and our unpreparedness we and Capetown and we would have pre and Capetown and we would rave pre sented the spectacle of conquering South Africa from the seacoast Germany Wants No Island WASHINGTON May 13 The fol lowing statement is furnished for publication The state department has ground for the belief that the Ger man government does not contem plate the acquisition of any island on the Venezuelan coast nor of a harbor or coaling station in that vicinity Grover Cleveland is reported to have cleaned up 400000 on Northern Pa cific in Wall street Bnttner Tells His Story SEATTLE Wash May 13 W M Buttner president of the German American Savings company of this city who is sought by Omaha offi cers charged with fraud has given himself up to the police He stated that the trouble for which he is want ed in Omaha arose from a shortage of 23 while he was collecting in that city Buttner states he was on trial at Omaha for alleged fraud and was released by the prosecuting attorney v - BUTTER MEN WILL f IGHT Nebraska Dealers Kally to Defend Dairy interests OMAHA May 13 The Nebraska Butter and Egg Dealers association and the State Dairymens association representing practically all of the dairy interests in the state will give united support to State Food Commis sioner Bassett in his efforts to enforce the law against the illegitimate sale of imitation butter and other imitation dairy products Twenty five members of the Butter and Egg Dealers association met in Omaha in response to an emergency call issued by the president and secre tary of the organization and with one voice they agreed to stand by Commis sioner Bassett in any step he might take toward the protection of the dairy interests Mr Bassett was appointed food commissioner by Governor Savage and it is said he will take charge of his office in a few days He will work under the law enacted by the legisla ture of 1897 Morris Friend of Lincoln represent ing the Beatrice Creamery company of that place said to a reporter There is no reason why the law against the sale of imitation butter cannot now be enforced The legisla ture of 1897 did not make proper pro vision for its enforcement but this year the lawmakers remedied the evil committed two years ago and so far as we know the Jaw will stand the test of any court in the land The trouble for years was due to the failure of the legislature to make appropriations for the salary of the commissioner and -his assistant In brief the state food law provides a penalty for selling colored imita tions of butter It will allow the sale of butterine but only in its natural color This places both butter and but terine on an equal footing What the dairymen object to is the sale of but terine or other butter imitations that are colored to resemble in appearance the pure dairy product It is this de ceit that we want to stamp out and we are of the opinion that we have the means at hand to do it with The law also requires restaurants hotels and other public eating houses that serve butter imitations to give notice of the fact by posting signs in a conspicuous place setting forth that butterine or whatever the imitation may be called ic served in the place The State Dairymens association will probably follow the example of the butter and egg dealers and hold a spe cial meeting within the next few days vith a similar purpose in view The officers of that association iave already signified their intention of standing back to back with the food commis sioner in his effort to enforce the law but it is proposed to make the influ ence of the organization still stronger by calling a special meeting for the purpose of taking united action The present indications point to a clash with the imitation butter manu facturers They object most strenu ously to the restriction against the use of coloring and it is possible proceed ings may be instituted in the courts to test the constitutionality of the act Mr Bassett in his official capacity will demand compliance with the law and if any violators are caught they will be prosecuted He will have the moral support of every butter and dairy man in the state and they to gether feel they can wield a mighty influence Fifth Marriage at 87 NEBRASKA CITY Neb May 13 The marriage of B S Hayden of this city to Mrs A Shupp of Omaha at Chillicothe Mo was a surprise to all This is the fifth marriage venture of the groom who is 87 years of age and the second venture of the bride who is 62 years of age Both have been resi dents of this city for many years and have been engaged to be married be fore The groom is well-to-do but not immensely wealthy as reported Bankers Elect Officers GRAND ISLAND May 13 The Ne braska Bankers association in session here elected officers for the ensuing year as follows C F Bentley of Grand Island president F M Penny of Wood River vice president W H McDonald of North Platte secretary Peter Mortensen of Ord treasurer F M Rublee of Broken Bow member of executive council of state association Fine Residence Destroyed WAVERLY May 13 An 8000 resi dence belonging to Miss Blanche Hines was destroyed by fire The house had been closed preparatory to a summer trip The origin of the fire is un known Nebraska at Washington WASHINGTON May 13 Dr R M Stone of Omaha who arrived in Wash ington last night called upon Com missioner Evans of the pension office having one or two matters before the department in which veterans of the civil war are interested JohnMallalieu and wife of Kearney are in the city on a short visit Mr Mallalieu called on Director Merriam having been superintendent of the cen sus for the Sixth Nebraska district TO GET KID OF DOLE Hawaiian Territorial Legislature Asks that Governor Be Eemoved A MEMORIAL TO THE PRESIDENT Problem That Will Face the Chief Executive on His Return Fresldtint Dole Is Denonnced as Hostile to the Islands Best Interests HONOLULU May 5 Via San Francisco May 11 The first terri torial legislature of Hawaii came to an end the evening of April 30 ac cording to Governor Dole and on the next night according to the majority of both houses The legislature ended its existence at loggerheads with the governor all along the line and without having passed a single one of the important measures to which the home rulers were committed except the county gov rnment act which the governor killed by a vest pocket veto The last act of the house the evening of April 30 was to pass a concurrent resolution containing a memorial to President McKinley asking for the re moval of Governor Dole He is charged with having hindered the work of the session by his hostility toward the leg islature withholding information and reports that were called for and refus ing to co operate with the lawmakers The president is asked in the reso lution to use his influence in behalf of an extra session of the legislature to transact general legislation which Dole refuses to grant The Hawaiians claim they have not had time in which to work out the plans of lawmaking they had formed in the thirty days of the regular ses sion In conclusion the home rulers- ask that Dole be removed if the president sees no other way to bring about an extra session of the territorial legis lature declaring that the governor has acted in such a manner as to lose the confidence of a majority of the people of the territory and charging that he has not dealt fairly with the home rule legislature The concurrent resolution passed through both houses by large majori ties all the native home rule members voting for it Governor Dole created a sensation in both houses by informing the com mittee sent to him to ask for an extra session that one of his reasons for not granting an extra session was that he had been reliably informed that brib ery was taking place Both houses passed a resolution de manding proof la reply the governor stated that general charges of bribery had been made in the local papers and on the floor of the senate but had not been investigated in spite of the appointment of committees to look into them and that the matter was being investigated by the governor with a view to punishing the offend ers if evidence against them could be obtained CAILLES CLOSELY CHASED Insurgent Leader Supposed to Have Gone Southward MANILA May 11 Cailles the in surgent leader in Laguna province is being closely chased He is supposed to have gone southward of Laguna province and is not likely to surrender fearing paying personal penalty for his numerous assassinations A hundred insurgents Tuesday even ing attacked Paglibac in Tayabas which province was considered to be pacified The insurgents were repulsed without loss A detachment of the Twenty first in fantry routed 150 rebels at Zurbanos camp near Lucaban and captured a large quantity of supplies There Will Be No Car Famine CHICAGO May 11 An understand ing has been reached between the fruit shippers of southern Caliofrnia and the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific roads which will preclude another car famine during the fruit shipping sea son and insure quicker service Al though no contract has been entered into the shippers have been assured that ample transportation facilities will be provided in the future for mov ing the orange and lemon crops Am ple car equipment is to be provided Uncle Sam Mnst Help Them FLORENCE Ariz May 11 The Gila river on the Sacaton reservation has gone dry and no grain will be har vested by the Indians Great destitu tion will ensue and government aid will be required to relieve the situa tion Xynched Him as a Warning WICHITA Kan May 11 J L Chandler an old resident farmer of Ioland Day county O T was taken from his home last night presumably by cattlemen and lynched There being no telegraph in that section of Oklahoma the news of the lynching did not reach Woodward until tonight For some time there has been trouble between the farmers and the cattle men and many animals have been poi soned WILL EIGHT OSTEOPATHY LAWS Nebraska State Medical Soclotj Deterr intncs so Test Its Validity LINCOLN Neb May 11 The Ne braska Stato Medical society com prising the state organization of al lopathic physicians in convention de cided to fight the osteopathy law en acted by the last legislature through the courts in a determined attempt to render it inoperative The sum of 200 was appropriated for that pur pose out of the treasury of the so ciety The law vhich is to be attacked is that legalizing the practice of the heal ing science of osteopathy within the state Before adjourning the society elect ed the following officers to serve for the ensuing years President Dr W B Ely Ainsworth first vice presi dent Dr A B Anderson Pawnee City second vice president Dr Schu ard recording secretary Dr A D Wilkinson Lincoln corresponding secretary Dr H W Orr Lincoln treasurer Dr J L Greene Lincoln DROWNS ON HORSEBACK Charles Robinsons bteed Sinks Under Him In IiOgran Creek PENDER Neb May 11 A young man named Charles Robinson who had been employed by Charles G Frey five miles west of Pender was drown ed in Logan creek He was driving some cattle across the creek The creek being high on account of recent heavy rains caused the cattle to scatter and he undertook to swim his horse around them when he got into deep water and the horse could not keep up and sank He clung to the horse until he came up a second time and then tried to reach shore but was to oexhaustetL to make it and went down His body was found down the stream forty rods from where he was last seen Goes to Instruct Filipinos HUMBOLDT Neb May 11 Prof Ned C Abbott of the city school is receiving the congratulation of friends over his selection as one of the teach ers to instruct the native Filipinos in the rudiments of civilization accord ing to the ideas of Uncle Sam The professor has just received a commis sion and notification of his appoint ment under Fred R Atkinson super intendent of the educational work in the Philippines to this position which he holds for three years at an annual salary of 1000 Transportation is furnished from here to Manila and Professor Abbott will doubtless leave ir June or as soon thereafter as di rected by the authorities at Washing ton Adjourns and No Decisions LINCOLN Neb May 11 The su preme court adjourned without hand ing down any decisions A great num ber of opinions were prepared by the commission it is known and turned over to the court for approval but owing to the absence of Judge Sulli van on account of sickness the filing of opinions was deferred until the last sitting in May The court failed to pass on the motion of Attorney Gen eral Prout to dismiss the suit of the state against the Rock Island railroad for over 250000 damages for viola tions of the maximum rate law An Old mans Crime COLUMBUS Neb May 11 Sheriff Byrnes took John Burnell to the state penitentiary Burnell was convicted of statutory rape in February and sen tenced early in March by Judge Hol lenbuck to four and one half years imprisonment but the old man a Grand Army veteran of fifty six years became seriously ill of pneumonia a few days after sentence was passed upon him and was kept at St Marys hospital not being considered able un til this week to make the trip to Lin coln Nine Tears for Assaalt NIOBRARA Neb May 11 Sheriff A W Crandall and Deputy John Con way left for Lincoln taking with them Evert Buchanan who was sentenced for assault with intent to commit rape upon the person of a child of a well to do farmer living near Bloomfield and also for Kearney to deliver to the reform school Charles Smart who was sentenced there for placing railroad ties across the track near Wausa Beet Crop in Good Jhape FREMONT Neb May 11 The Standard Cattle company has its large acreage of beets nearly all in and a good part of them cultivated The beets are in good shape and the stand even Grand Army Officers PLATTSMOUTH Neb May 11 C F Steel of Fairbury was elected senior vice commander and R S Wilcox of Omaha department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic Bartender Drops Dead NORTH PLATTE Neb May 11 Walter Johnson bartender in Henry Waltermaths saloon fell oackward as he was drawing a glass of beer and died in a few minutes His death is attributed to heart failure s r